Basin and play inventories
Maintain a county-wide surface parcel layer for prospecting, owner matching, and repeat research across a basin or play.
For oil and gas land and title teams
Keep surface ownership tied to the legal land description
Search a unit, leasehold, section, or project area and identify the tax parcels and surface owners beneath it. Carry section-township-range, acreage, mailing, legal, and county source fields into land and title work.
PropertyLayer customers
Map the surface estate before land work begins
Start with a basin, unit, leasehold, section, or project boundary. Use assessor records to identify the tax parcels and surface owners that land, title, and operations teams need to research.
Land departments, landmen, title researchers, operators, and service companies working across large rural areas.
- Land input
- A county, unit boundary, leasehold, project area, or section-township-range search.
- Surface record
- Surface owners, mailing addresses, deeded and calculated acreage, parcel geometry, legal descriptions, and county IDs.
- Research handoff
- A sourced parcel and owner list for land systems, notice preparation, title follow-up, or field operations.
Where parcel data fits in oil and gas land work
Keep the surface parcel, owner record, and legal land description together as project boundaries change.
Surface-owner research
Resolve the assessor owner and mailing record beneath a unit, section, pad, access road, or other project area.
PLSS and acreage checks
Compare section-township-range, legal descriptions, deeded acreage, and mapped acreage before deeper title work.
Land-system enrichment
Carry county parcel IDs, alternate IDs, source links, and recording references into land, title, GIS, and notice workflows.
Research the surface parcel without implying mineral title
County assessor records describe surface parcels and named owners. Mineral ownership, severed estates, leasehold, and working interests require separate title research.
- Working question
- Who appears as surface owner across this section?
- Sample result
- Section 14 · Township 3N · Range 68W · 6 surface owners
- Use in the workflow
- Map the surface-owner inventory across the PLSS area.
- Working question
- Where does the county say owner mail should go?
- Sample result
- PO Box 728 · Midland, TX 79702
- Use in the workflow
- Prepare an assessor-based owner mailing list.
- Working question
- Does deeded acreage agree with mapped acreage?
- Sample result
- Deeded: 158.7 acres · mapped: 160.2 acres
- Use in the workflow
- Flag acreage differences for land or title review.
- Working question
- Which county and recording references support follow-up?
- Sample result
- APN 004-214-00 · NW¼ Section 14 · Book 812 / Page 144
- Use in the workflow
- Retain the identifiers and references needed for follow-up.
Choose access by the scale of the land program
Use live requests for changing units and one-off parcel research. Keep bulk files for basin inventories, recurring owner matching, and local land systems.
APIBest for project-area research
Resolve parcels as units and project areas change
Use the API when unit or project boundaries change, a landman researches one parcel, or an internal map needs the latest assessor record.
Bulk Data
Browse available dataMaintain a basin-scale surface parcel index
Use bulk files for basin-scale surface inventories, recurring owner matching, acreage reconciliation, and local GIS or land systems.
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